Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.
GIORDANO di QUEDLINBURG. - Augustinian, ascetic-mystical writer of Saxony, born in Quedlinburg in the last five-year period of the 13th century, died in Vienna, perhaps in 1378.
(fot. Anderson) GIORDANO, LUCA - Jesus among the Doctors - Rome, Galleria nazionale d'arte antica.GIORDANO OF SAXONY, Blessed - Fresco by Beato Angelico in the Convent of S. Marco - Florence. (photo Alinari)He taught theology at Marburg and Erfurt. In the Diocese of Brandenburg he tenaciously fought against the Luciferian heretics. He governed the religious province of Germany and that of Saxony as superior for quite a few years, ever esteemed and loved for his doctrine and holiness of life. He wrote much on sacred matters. But his literary fame is due principally to the book Vitasfratrum, by which he exerted a considerable influence on all Augustinian historians of subsequent centuries.
Principal works: Opus postillarum et sermonum de tempore (Strasbourg 1483); De vitiis et virtutibus (Ms. Cod. A. IV. 14 in the University Library of Basel); Meditationes de Passione Christi (Antwerp 1485); Vitasfratrum (Rome 1587, Liège 1625, New York 1943).
BIBL.: J. Lanteri, Illustriores viri Augustinenses, I, Tolentino 1858, pp. 323-26; R. Arbesmann-W. Humpfner, in the excellent introduction of over 100 pp. to the ed. of Vitasfratrum, New York 1943. Davide Falcioni
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“GIORDANO DI QUEDLINBURG.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI (1951), p. 283. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/giordano-di-quedlinburg.
